Aleksandar Dobrinov

(29 August 1889 - 1958, Bulgaria)

Aleksandar Dobrinov was a Bulgarian caricaturist born in Veliko Turnovo. From his mother's side he had a kinship with great artists. In his father's inn, a lot of famous people stayed, like Stoian Mihaelovski, Canko Cerkovski and Petko Todorov. He lived and worked Czechoslovakia for five years, and provided 6 individual exhibitions. He painted a hundreds of portraits of famous artists, writers, politicians and bankers, published in many prestigious foreign newspapers. Dobrinov has also drawn booklets of comics with poetry, but they are hard to find, because they were forbidden.